Author Topic: What can I grow up an apple tree? (Read 5375 times)

Hyacinth · « **on:** March 14, 2007, 23:57:26 »

Had the tree fellers in this avers & they've taken down most of an orrible manky old apple tree. I've asked for some trunk & branches to be left - I thought of growing something over them and also of course using the branches to hang bird feeders.....but what can I plant round the tree to grow up it? Ideally I want something that will cling to the tree but I can only think of ivy - which of course the birds will love - but what other options are there please?

Emagggie · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2007, 00:15:28 »

Wot about a clematis? A friend did this and it looks great.

Hyacinth · « **Reply #2 on:** March 15, 2007, 00:19:10 »

My other thought was clematis ::)....would it need support tho or will it attach itself to the trunk?

shirlton · « **Reply #3 on:** March 15, 2007, 07:39:16 »

just a few well placed strings will do if you grow one of the alpine varieties. After the first year they find there own way up. So do the montana range.

Hyacinth · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2007, 09:40:43 »

Thanks Shirl. Anything else I wonder? (I don't really like clematis :-\) but I suppose that some 'invisible' wire would be the way to go, whatever I decide, to get anything established....

markfield rover · « **Reply #5 on:** March 15, 2007, 09:51:56 »

There is a nice perennial sweet pea ,a good white colour no scent tho'
unlike honey suckle!

teresa · « **Reply #6 on:** March 15, 2007, 09:58:04 »

Climbing roses look good, Honeysuckle you can get the evergreen one is it Hendry? not sure. Or sweet peas, morning glory , chillien glory vine list is endless. Raised bed around the root of the tree gives you more scope?
Sounds like the tree just had a prune so will grow new branches.

norfolklass · « **Reply #7 on:** March 15, 2007, 10:01:32 »

for scent: jasmine?

mikey · « **Reply #8 on:** March 15, 2007, 10:21:33 »

for speed and rapid cover (maybe too rapid) Russian Vine / Mile a Minute.

Or, as we did at the last house on a sad looking Cherry Tree, a Golden Hop.

Mikey

manicscousers · « **Reply #9 on:** March 15, 2007, 14:46:03 »

we've made hazel growing things and put clematis one side and a beautiful golden rose up the other side of it ;D

Rohaise · « **Reply #10 on:** March 15, 2007, 15:20:14 »

A Dorothy Perkins rose( masses of small bright pink button roses ) and grow it together with Solanum jasminoides (the ordinary blue one ) they look sensational together in flower ! I have put a soft plastic trellis around the trunk to tie them into . End of summer I cut out all the flowered shoots of the rose and tie in the new shoots to flower the following year. I wind them round and around the trunk . Easy peasy ! :D
Rohaise x

Hyacinth · « **Reply #11 on:** March 15, 2007, 15:27:18 »

I like Mike's ideas.....golden hop would be spectacular, as would Russian Vine (is that the one that changes colour in the autumn?) - and both easily obtainable too, which is a bonus. RIGHT! That's what I'll be looking for.. and chilean glory?..I saved seeds from the one I've somewhere else, so I'll have a go at germinating them too 8) I'm off my perennial sweet pea...I'd thought to have it scrambling through my hawthorne hedge? Well, I've got the roots but my neighbour gets the flowers...grrrrrrrr

Teresa, there's no chance that this diseased old tree's going to recover.....my tree feller was concerned that if he cut it back as I wanted, it would kill it....."YEP!" says I with a big big grin ;D....

A morning's work and the apple tree debris is now neatly made into a layered fence in the boundary gaps.....shopping this weekend, then...

Many thanks everyone for your help.

(ooooooo, just when I thought I'd made a decision, Rohaise posts....hmmm... Dorothy Perkins....does it have a long flowering period?

Emagggie · « **Reply #12 on:** March 15, 2007, 17:29:46 »

Late summer flowers ( late July), but you could plant something interesting for the beginning of summer as well.

GRACELAND · « **Reply #13 on:** March 15, 2007, 20:33:21 »

A nice Climbing rose ,,Rosa Americana Is Nice

teresa · « **Reply #14 on:** March 15, 2007, 23:13:00 »

Check these out,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VIRGINIA-CREEPER-FAST-CLIMBING-HARDY-PERRENIAL-PLANTS_W0QQitemZ250092517514QQcategoryZ57223QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GARDEN-FLOWER-SEEDS-GREAT-CLIMBER-GLORY-VINE-10-SEEDS_W0QQitemZ290094204010QQcategoryZ57224QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Hyacinth · « **Reply #15 on:** March 15, 2007, 23:32:13 »

Thanks so much for those links Theresa - you're a darlin'. So it's virginia creeper or golden hop for my apple tree with some saved seeds from my chilean vine...the birds are going to love it - and so am I. 8)

teresa · « **Reply #16 on:** March 15, 2007, 23:37:25 »

One tip virginia creeper needs to be in full sun to get 3 weeks where the leaves are bright flame colour otherwise its green. ;)
The dont say that on the plants. >:(

mattplants · « **Reply #17 on:** March 16, 2007, 08:58:23 »

What about a rambling rose? or vigorous clematis?

you can always search for and check out plants using a database
htp://www.findmeplants.co.uk is a good one.

sawfish · « **Reply #18 on:** March 18, 2007, 19:39:21 »

Honeysuckle

carolinej · « **Reply #19 on:** March 18, 2007, 20:57:23 »

Custard marrow.........sorry, couldn't resist :-[

cj :)

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